Microsoft's TrueType fonts are now installed, you can check that for example by opening the OpenOffice Writer. Take a look at the available fonts, and you should find fonts such as Arial, Times New Roman, Verdana, etc.:

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Firefox goes to bottom of screen and won't activate. The system refuses to put any shortcuts on desktop. Difficult to find programs to activate to work with. Having used Ubuntu since 6.04 this Mint 8 is frustrating. Not surprising though. I have been buying LXF for several years and have yet to get a usable program disk. Would like to give Mint 8 a fair shot so need a comeback on this issue. Printed out your Official User Guide and am thinking of downloading Mint from source. Credible idea or no. LXF needs to stay in England, maybe. Won't be buying another one of their over-priced magazines; that's for sure. Always liked and respected Ubuntu. Just thought of trying something new. Thanks for letting your ears or ear. boB

Hi, While http://www.linuxmint.com/about.php seems to say Mint is based on Debian, your howto says it is based on Ubuntu. From the URL above: "Originally launched as a variant of Ubuntu with integrated media codecs," ... "It is a Debian-based distribution". I suppose if Mint 8 is based on Ubuntu 9.10, it will have the same problems (e.g. PulseAudio) that Ubuntu 9.10 does? Thanks, Ed.

Mint 8 is based on Ubuntu 9.10 and 100% package compatible with it. So you may also install directly from the Karmic repos, and if you have a problem, you can go and ask your question on the Ubuntu forums - unless your problem has to do with one of the "mint tools", that is.

The new Linux Mint installs easily and works very well. Including the basic install, updates, other programs and setting up mail it takes less than thirty-minutes to get the system up and running with all these features. I still dual-boot with Windows because I like to record vinyl and Audacity is fine but it does not have all the features I want. If Linux had a program like "Spin-It-Again" and another program that would make "FLV" files for YouTube I would probably just use Linux, unless I'm missing something that Linux has.

Mint 8 is indeed a Ubuntu/Debian based distro,The Mint developers seem to have sorted out the various PulseAudio issues that Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 have,namely the crackle and popping at the start of an audio track that I have experienced,and many other users have reported .If you want to download Youtube videos in .flv format then install the Firefox add-on ¨Easy Youtube Downloader¨it´s available from the Firefox website and allows you to download in .flv,Mp3,Mp4,3Gp formats.As for recording vinyl records this does seem to be possible,take a look at this http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/149917.There is quite a bit of info on the subject just google.

roflmao... Mint 8 Helena is based on Ubuntu 9.10, read it, :P, and again, you need to read again (not here, but the offcial site of mint), Mint have devs too and they work to change something who can go wrong !

Perfect Desktop that is if it can be installed on a Sata or External USB drive, I have just spent two days trying to install Mint 8 on to a Sata Drive with no avail, It also messed up two USB external hard drives I tried to install it on and rendered both of them unreadable, I have been using Mint 7 on a small IDE drive since it came out, and love it, By the way I can't get any answers from Mint forums as to why this is happening,

Yet I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on the Sata drive with no problems though it is not my favourite distribution, Mint is, though I most say that the boot up time for buntu is extremely fast, one good point for it.

Talk about doing it the hard way. While you might be more satisfied getting the software straight from the repository in Synaptic, Mint has its own Software Manager that you completely missed in the menu. The program makes it much easier to find and install many of the programs you listed without having to figure out which packages you need and which you don't among the ones you find with Synaptic. You may have more control and a wider selection with the path you took, but the Software Manager can be much more user friendly than the Package Manager, especially for new users.

i've tried mint 8 a couple of days ago for the 1st time and it really impressed me!

looks wonderful. not less beautiful then opensuse.

it can use ubuntu repos and all the variety and number of packages - that's great!

the menu is great! the best gnome menu then in any other distribution (yes, much better then the standard one or then that buggy slab in opensuse)

the most easy to install and ready for work out of the box distro then any other distro i've tried (unless one chooses the "universal" variant of mint).

and finally - there is one more advantage of mint for me in comparison with ubuntu - it is that when an application starts you see another window next to the window of the starting app with the title "starting ****" in ubuntu (i have also noticed this in fedora) - and this is what i disliked much in ubuntu since 8.04. there is no such window in mint (as well as in suse gnome).

i'm going to stick with mint for now. if something goes unresolvably wrong with it, going back to opensuse gnome. these are 2 the most nice-looking and user-friendly linux distros for me for now =)

I am very new to linux and have install Mint 8 on my Dell vostro 1320 laptop. I have 2 issues. When i try and install 'Flash player' (on Facebook it says plugins missing) auto install doesn't work and I have to select manual. Flash gives me 4 file types! Which 1 do i use and how do i install it. My 2nd issue is my wireless doesn't work, but it works perfectly in WinXP can someone please tell me a way for my wireless to work in Mint8 Thank you so much Mikal